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Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall

Massachusetts rates for HCPCS 33621

A procedure in which a catheter is passed directly through the chest wall into the heart so a small mesh tube can be positioned in a vessel to hold it open. The catheter is then withdrawn and the chest closed. This route avoids threading a catheter all the way up from a vessel in the groin.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Stent Placed Through The Chest Wall cost?

$1,413

Typical negotiated rate. In Massachusetts, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $1,413 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $1,175 from a physician practice, and about $2,818 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 7 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$1,175$1,047 to $1,995
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$2,818$1,318 to $3,715

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $2,818 · 10th to 90th $617 to $5,623Professionalmedian $1,175 · 10th to 90th $912 to $2,512
$100$500$2K$10Kfacility $2,818professional $1,175

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,623.41
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$616.60
Median
$1,047.13
Typical High
$2,570.40
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$5,623.41
AllWays Health Partners
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,148.15
Median
$1,862.09
Typical High
$2,570.40
Fallon Health
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$977.24
Median
$1,288.25
Typical High
$4,897.79
Fallon Health
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$1,202.26
Typical High
$1,698.24
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,023.29
Median
$3,388.44
Typical High
$5,888.44
Harvard Pilgrim
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$912.01
Median
$1,258.93
Typical High
$2,454.71
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$56.23
Median
$2,187.76
Typical High
$5,623.41
Mass General Brigham
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$707.95
Median
$1,380.38
Typical High
$3,981.07
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,000.00
Median
$2,884.03
Typical High
$4,677.35
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$1,071.52
Median
$1,621.81
Typical High
$2,754.23

Where Massachusetts sits

The same service costs 9.1 times more in California than in Kentucky. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Massachusetts· 27th of 51

$1,413

CA $9,333KY $1,023

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.